Category Archives: family

sunk…

06 Wednesday Aug 2025

Posted by in business, family, garden, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

our most recent project was fixing the back gate… one end had sunk down and it was dragging on the ground, making it difficult to open and close…

day one, session one, involved removing it from the fence and cutting a portion off the bottom… at the end of the day we put the garbage and recycling bins in the opening so it didn’t feel so open, lol…

session two was removing nails and finding a board to go from corner to corner to help keep the gate from sagging as well as one to go along the bottom… and purchasing screws and a gate wheel…

day two, session one, involved figuring out the angle of the cross board and reattaching all the pieces… and purchasing an impact drill…

we aren’t going to talk about how someone gave away the first one, sigh…

session two involved reattaching the gate to the fence and making sure the wheel was in the correct spot… sounds easier than it actually was, lol…

and job done…

this will make taking out and returning the bins much easier in summer and winter;-)…

list…

05 Tuesday Aug 2025

Posted by in family, garden, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , ,

spent a good portion of Saturday working through the project list…

the flat rock in the waterfall area was glued down…

the sad planter got a few coats of bright blue paint…

a used pond hose had clamps removed and was cut down into pieces that fit into the garbage can…

large pieces of tyndall stone were moved to tidy up the veggie garden area…

a board under the bed was trimmed so I won’t bang my shins on it…

a broken piece of 2 by 10 was removed from the bench and clamped together to produce a template for the replacement…

what fun to check off so many items from the list😊…

boyfriends…

04 Monday Aug 2025

Posted by in family, garden, health, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , ,

on Tuesday evening one of the doors on the side gate was taken away to be repaired by one of my beloved’s boyfriends…

a number of the “rays” had broken over time so it needed a delicate touch to return it to its former glory…

it was odd that only this one door had the broken pieces…

at bedtime I put a chair up in the empty space as I didn’t want the deer to come and visit (ie, eat) anything in the garden, lol…

Wednesday afternoon it was returned all beautiful and restored…

we screwed it back into the hinges and it looks excellent…

left…

03 Sunday Aug 2025

Posted by in family, health, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , ,

earlier this week I had a bit of a meltdown…

it wasn’t until Wednesday that I realized the reason for the meltdown was my body getting ready for Friday…

would have been our 55th wedding anniversary… we only made it to 42 together…

it is hard to believe that 13 years have gone by since my beloved left me…

55th…

01 Friday Aug 2025

Posted by in family, health, life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

today I’ve been giggling over a couple of things as I remember 42 years together, on what should have been our 55th wedding anniversary…

first thing I wandered the garden and took pictures of the morning glories…

some, where they were planted, and some that have just found a spot they like, lol…

I remember my beloved bringing me pictures of the ones blooming in the garden each day when he came to visit me in hospital around our fortieth anniversary…

he was just getting used to the camera on his phone, so it was a big deal for him to take the time to take pictures of flowers…

the second thing is the pond…

it has been leaking for ages, but only when the waterfall is running…

we had the leaking problem for a year or so before he died and it was driving him crazy, trying to figure out the problem…

finally, as I was reading on the back deck, two red squirrels were having a battle over one of the feeders… he and squirrels never got on, so it was funny to have them yelling at each other today…

disappointed…

27 Sunday Jul 2025

Posted by in family, garden, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I was disappointed today… plans had been made for weeks to have my middle grandson come and help the oldest prep and lay new carpet on the front steps…

I was up at 7:30… it was overcast, but not wet, and I took some nice photos of various morning glories…

then, it rained (which we needed) for most of the day… didn’t stop until around three… that of course destroyed all of the morning glory flowers🥺…

made me sad as I was looking forward to this project getting finished… it had already been delayed once and we’ve had the carpet and glue all ready for ages…

now we will have to wait for another opportunity to make the carpeting happen, sigh…

designed…

25 Friday Jul 2025

Posted by in business, family, life, moments, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

spent time with old photos today as I was searching for some particular pictures…

a neighbour was having a party and had signs on the lawn which made me think of the business we had for a number of years…

we designed and produced (well my beloved did the making, lol) different signs and words and snuck into yards to set them up for special occasions…

it was fun and at the time no one else was doing that…

going through photos to find a few of the ones we’d set up was enjoyable and a reminder of some amazing times in our lives;-)… some of those albums were kind of dusty…

shelling…

11 Friday Jul 2025

Posted by in family, food, garden, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

this morning I picked the peas from the side garden;-)…

had to use the step stool to get the higher ones and my housemate picked the last couple that I couldn’t reach…

I spent a lovely fifteen minutes shelling them…

then boiled and ate them for lunch…

yum, what a treat;-)…

sardines…

10 Thursday Jul 2025

Posted by in family, food, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

today, as I was making my lunch, I was reminded of my dad…

he loved sardines and would often make a sardine sandwich for his lunch when he was home…

when he worked he had a cheese sandwich every single day🤪…

back to the sardines, lol…

he would smash them up in a bowl with a fork and a bit of the oil from the container and then put the mix onto white bread…

I mashed mine up and then topped up some premium crackers with the mixture… tasty and went well with the cucumber, onion, tomato salad which I also made…

sweet memory;-)…

fixing???

07 Monday Jul 2025

Posted by in family, garden, life, loss, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

we’ve been working on the pond to try and fix the leak that only seems to happen when the waterfall is running…

we purchased a new hose from a pond store and it took a while to get here… then we had to wait for a good day to work on it…

took extra help to pull the old hose and insert the new one… next a new connection to the pump had to be purchased and finally on Sunday evening the waterfall was turned on… the pump hadn’t been cleaned, but the water was coming through the waterfall much stronger that previously…

we thought the problem was where the water meets the deck on the deck side…

this how it looked at the end of Tuesday…

and it was still leaking, sigh…

this is how it looked on Thursday, although we may be getting closer to the problem…